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Kelp :: Kelp (n.) The calcined ashes of seaweed, -- formerly much used in the manufacture of glass, now used in the manufacture of iodine..

Skelp :: Skelp (n.) A wrought-iron plate from which a gun barrel or pipe is made by bending and welding the edges together, and drawing the thick tube thus formed..

Cabrilla :: Cabrilla (n.) A name applied to various species of edible fishes of the genus Serranus, and related genera, inhabiting the Meditarranean, the coast of California, etc. In California, some of them are also called rock bass and kelp salmon..

Mannite :: Mannite (n.) A sweet white efflorescence from dried fronds of kelp, especially from those of the Laminaria saccharina, or devil's apron..

Skelp :: Skelp (n.) A squall; also, a heavy fall of rain..

Skelp :: Skelp (v. t.) To strike; to slap.

Alga :: Alga (n.) A kind of seaweed; pl. the class of cellular cryptogamic plants which includes the black, red, and green seaweeds, as kelp, dulse, sea lettuce, also marine and fresh water confervae, etc..

Laminaria :: Laminaria (n.) A genus of great seaweeds with long and broad fronds; kelp, or devil's apron. The fronds commonly grow in clusters, and are sometimes from thirty to fifty feet in length. See Illust. of Kelp..

Sea Girdles :: Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle..

Tangle :: Tangle (n.) Any large blackish seaweed, especially the Laminaria saccharina. See Kelp..

Oarsweed :: Oarsweed (n.) Any large seaweed of the genus Laminaria; tangle; kelp. See Kelp.

Kelpfish :: Kelpfish (n.) A small California food fish (Heterostichus rostratus), living among kelp. The name is also applied to species of the genus Platyglossus..

Kelpy :: Kelpy (n.) An imaginary spirit of the waters, horselike in form, vulgarly believed to warn, by preternatural noises and lights, those who are to be drowned..

Barilla :: Barilla (n.) Impure soda obtained from the ashes of any seashore plant, or kelp..

Kelp :: Kelp (n.) Any large blackish seaweed.

Butterfish :: Butterfish (n.) A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand..

Kelpware :: Kelpware (n.) Same as Kelp, 2..

Melanosperm :: Melanosperm (n.) An alga of any kind that produces blackish spores, or seed dust. The melanosperms include the rockweeds and all kinds of kelp..

Seaweed :: Seaweed (n.) Any marine plant of the class Algae, as kelp, dulse, Fucus, Ulva, etc..

Kelpies :: Kelpies (pl. ) of Kelp.

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